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this might look like your standard inkjet printers but it's hiding a big secret that could save you tons of cash I'm Justin with CNET and this is a first look at the Epson eco tank ET 2550 when you lift up the lid on this side you won't find the traditional inkjet cartridges that most printers use instead the eco tank series comes with a set of ink and bottles that you empty yourself into a large refillable reservoir now you're probably wondering about the benefits of this new ink delivery system and here's the thing each bottle that comes with this printer has enough ink to print about four thousand pages of black ink and 6500 pages of color and that equates to about the same as a two-year supply the catch though is that Epson wants you to pay a lot more upfront for the printer itself the e-team 2550 is the cheapest in the eco tank line and it cost 399 bucks so basically Epson is asking you to commit yourself to this printer for as long as it takes to offset the high retail price but if you can stick with that the benefit is that after two years you can pick up a new set of ink bottles for super cheap it's only 13 bucks for each bottle and that's about fifty-two dollars for the set let's compare that to a non eco tank Epson printer that costs 50 bucks retail but the cartridges only last 175 pages and refills cost 40 bucks for a full set aside from the eco tank the rest of the unit is pretty typical of a hundred dollar printer it has print scan and copy functionality and even though there's no touchscreen you can walk up to an unplugged in an SD card from your digital camera for direct photo prints better still it can connect to a Wi-Fi network to pull print jobs from the cloud not to mention Epsons own mobile app for outputting stuff off your smart phone so who is this printer really good for well you can save a lot of money potentially on ink cartridges refills here but you'll have to wait until you exceed the cost of the retail price first which will probably take a few years and if you don't need a lot of extra features and don't mind keeping this printer around for a while it really could be worth your dollar you can check out more details in my full review on CNET but that's going to do it for me I'm Justin you just took a first look at the Epson eco tank EG 2550 inkjet printers thanks for watching